ariellalisan.org – Homeward Bound

I MISSED it. It’s been six years already, since I last went out for a scouting event. The last one was the 12th National Jamboree in Palo, Leyte in the last days of 2001 up to the first few days of 2002.

I’m going back to the old times as I attend the basic training for troop leaders tomorrow until Sunday in Tampakan, South Cotabato (the site of Sagittarius Mines, Inc.). I hope there’s cellphone signal there so I can still contact Loreen and the rest of the SoCCSKSarGen bloggers for updates about our upcoming activity at NDDU.

YOUNG AND dynamic bloggers in South Cotabato, General Santos City and Sarangani Province met yesterday for the 1st planning workshop in preparation for the 2nd Mindanao Bloggers Summit, which will be held in GenSan on October 25.

Sir Hecky (left) facilitated the workshop, Sir Avel (right) provided the venue and snacks, and I (center) provided the bulk of the participants-slash-volunteers-slash-my students.

A FEW years ago, the horrors of closures of pre-need institutions like CAP traumatized many of us so bad that the affected planholders cursed those companies and decided right there and then to never trust them again.

That’s never gonna happen again once the Senate Bill 2077 or the Philippine Pre-Need Code of 2008 is enacted. With the Senate’s passing this bill, we have something to hope for.

At the end of this post, you may download the primer of the pre-need code.

In an email, Sen. Mar Roxas, who is the author of this bill, said that

“…the code will hold pre-need companies to stricter standards to safeguard the rights of Filipino families, such as concrete measures to protect plan holders; detailed provisions on the securities a pre-need company can invest in; and the percentage of the premiums that should go into the trust fund.

FOLLOWING A tag passed on to me by Marga, I went to a site and had my blog’s readability analyzed. After a few seconds, the site’s mechanisms concluded that the level of education required to understand my blog is elementary. Great!

You, too can send your blog’s reading level!

Know how!

Here’s the Procedure:

I’M BACK to the contemplative me — which is the normal me, as it happens.

By the way…

It’s July 21 today, so we’re two days past the rumored doomsday. And what? Are we all dead now? Fortunately, the July-18-Earthquake thing was simply someone’s attempt at becoming famous or at proving how powerful a tool is the internet in creating chaos.

Yesterday we had a triple birthday celebration at home. Last Saturday was my older sister’s birthday, yesterdya was my niece’s, and today is my bro’s. We rented a videoke machine and we took turns with the mic from lunchtime yesterday until midnight. My cousin and her two daughters, who have just arrived from the states joined us. My nieces and my cousin’s daughter get on well with each other easily, thanks to high school musical.